Video: Proofing and imposing pages

I am going to point out some useful settings for proofing your document. So I'm going to go to File and Print, and if we just want to output two pages to one sheet, two-letter size pages to an 11x17 sheet, then we need to choose Spreads. We have a little preview down here, showing us what we are going to get. I'll then need to change my Paper Size from Letter to 11x17 assuming that our printer is capable of this page size. Since we aren't using any bleeds, we can't print at 100% size.

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Proofing and imposing pages

I am going to point out some useful settings for proofing your document. So I'm going to go to File and Print, and if we just want to output two pages to one sheet, two-letter size pages to an 11x17 sheet, then we need to choose Spreads.We have a little preview down here, showing us what we are going to get. I'll then need to change my Paper Size from Letter to 11x17 assuming that ourprinter is capable of this page size. Since we aren't using any bleeds,we can't print at 100% size.

I now need to change the Orientation of my page by clicking on this icon, andwe can see things are looking a lot better down there. Since we are not usingany bleeds, since we have no elements that go to the edge of the page, we don'tneed any Marks and Bleeds turned on here. We are able to print at 100% size.I'll click now on Graphics, Output can stay just as it is, Graphics. Send Data,in your early proofing stages, you might consider sending Proxy images, lowresolution versions of your images just so that the whole process will bequicker. But when you do come to send the final print, Optimized Subsampling isthe one that we want.

So those are some things that you might want to consider, but let's also thinkabout how we can impose the pages and make a really realistic mockup of thenewsletter, printed back to back and presented as an 8 page publication.This is going to require that we change our document from reader spreads whichis what we have right now with the numbers running sequentially from 1 to 8 toprinter spreads where we have the first page next to page 8, and well we havepage 2 will be next to page 7, page 6 next to page 3, and pages 4 and 5 as sentto spread, would remain as they are.

Rather than having to shuffle our pages around here on the Pages panel,InDesign has a very useful plug-in called Print Booklet that will do this forus, or at least, it will output a PDF, a Portable Document Format file whereour pages are imposed as reader spreads.So let's just take a look at the Setup options here. We want to make sure thatwe are outputting to a PDF printer. We want the whole range 2-up Saddle Stitch.This doesn't matter since we don't have any Marks and Bleeds, and we don't haveany blank printer spreads either. So those two options are practically irrelevant.

Let's go to the Print Settings where we'll need to go to Setup and say that wewant to output this on 11x17 sheet, Landscape Orientation, and then we canclick OK to that. We might even want to save this as a preset, so that nexttime that we do this, we can just choose that preset rather than having tochange the actual options.Now, we'll now click OK, there is the preset, and now if we look at thePreview, we get an idea of how our pages are going to be imposed. We have alittle kind of watermark there on this preview indicating what page is what,page 2 next to page 7, page 6 next to page 3, odd numbered page is always onthe right, and the total should always equal one more than the number of pagesin your publication. So they should always add up to 9, which they do.

So now when I click Print, that is going to make a PDF file. So here we are inAcrobat with the imposed pages. We now have 4 tabloid size pages derived fromour 8 Letter size pages, and to make our mockup, we are going to output firstthe odd pages, then assuming your printer supports this, turn the page over,and output the even pages.Now before we can do that, we need to setup the Page Setup properties here inAcrobat. We want to say the Paper Size that we are after is Tabloid, and we cannow go to the Print dialog box, where we want to make sure there is acorrespondence between the Document Size and the Paper Size, good.

They are both the same and then we can choose to output first of all, the Odd Pages, 2 odd pages, turn them over, and then output the Even Pages and you've got yourself a mockup.

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